Raised From The Wild-Chapter 240: Conversations

"Marx, I don’t think it is a good idea to shoot them. Let us just let them be." Amaya said hurriedly. She was alarmed when Marx took out the gun.

Marx calmed down and returned the gun to a hidden holster under his vest.

"Go inside the tent. Vasquez and I will take turns to watch." He instructed Amaya gently.

Amaya wanted to refute. She did not need to sleep in a tent. She can sleep on the ground in a sleeping bag. Didn’t she grow up in the jungle?

"Princess, please sleep inside the tent." Marx urged her, intentionally reminding her that she was a princess and she deserved the special treatment.

The three dark shadows looming above them gave Marx an ominous feeling. However, he was comforted by the fact that they were inside a safe house and the werewolves should not be able to break in.

Wolves howls filled the air. The three beasts growled and two of them left but one remained and he seemed to be the leader of the pack.

Marx put on his goggles and turned off the torch. Everything turned pitch-black. All he could see was two fiery red eyes that glow in the dark looking down at where the princess was sleeping. He kept pacing back and forth, growling and then whining.

Amaya was tired and it did not take a long time for her to sleep.

"Boss, I’ll keep watch. You can go to sleep." Vasquez urged Marx.

Marx nodded. He took out the sleeping bag attached to his backpack and laid it down beside Amaya’s tent.

The werewolf above growled and hit the iron bars creating a a clanging noise. Amaya stirred.

Marx gritted his teeth. ’This damn beast! This is a rare opportunity for me to sleep beside Amaya but he ruined it.’

He had no choice but to move away from Amaya. Only then did the werewolf stop being restless.

The werewolf jumped down from the roof and went to the side of the wall of rock where he remembered the door was. He placed his hand on the wall trying to press hard but nothing happened.

He became angry and began punching and kicking the wall while roaring loudly. When he howled the nocturnal insects who were noisy suddenly became silent. He was frustrated because he could not find the door.

He climbed back and lay with his face down directly above Amaya’s tent. He tried to inhale her scent. It calmed him. Since he just feasted on a prey, he fell asleep.

Amaya was awakened by the werewolf’s howls earlier. She stuck her head outside the tent and studied the werewolf who was in a sitting position above her. The animal was very huge. She estimated his height to be over 2 meters just like the minotaur. In terms of behavior, he was more of a wolf than a human.

"Marx, what do you think is the intention of the people behind these experiments?" Amaya asked while staring at the beast above her.

"Maybe, they want to create a killing machine." Marx shared his bold guess.

"Humans are very cruel. I don’t pity the people who died in this place." Amaya lamented.

"Yeah. They paid the price for their own mistakes." Marx agreed. "Aya, can you communicate with him?"

"Yes. But I don’t like to." Amaya said softly.

"Don’t you want to know what happened?" Marx asked curiously.

"Do you want me to?" She asked back.

"Hmm" Marx hummed softly. He was not really sure whether he wanted her to communicate with the werewolf or not.

Amaya howled softly.

The werewolf opened his eyes and looked down. Did he hear the human call for him? He growled.

Amaya: Are you a shifter?

Werewolf: "..."

Werewolf: "Are you a human or a wolf?"

Amaya: "I am a human."

Werewolf: "But you talk like a wolf and you also smell like a wolf. I like your smell."

Amaya: "..."

Werewolf: "Did that crazy human do something to you? But I haven’t seen you before."

Amaya: "Who is that human? I am not from here. I came from far away."

Werewolf: "That human who created us. He said he is our ’father.’"

Amaya: "Did you kill them?"

Werewolf: "Yes"

Amaya: "Why?"

Amaya suddenly felt a killing intent from the werewolf.

Werewolf: "He killed my mate. He said that my mate was stupid and did not have human intelligence. He attached so many tubes to her body and she died."

The werewolf howled. It sounded agonizing as if he was reliving the time when his mate died.

Amaya: "No human entered this mountain after that?"

Werewolf: "Human came. I and my family killed them."

Amaya: "They don’t bring weapons when they come?"

Amaya was really curious about how no human could penetrate the mountain.

Werewolf: "Their weapons cannot hurt us. ’Father’ said that our skin is very strong and cannot easily be hurt."

Amaya: "Are there only the three of you?"

Werewolf: "My brother and his mate have pups. I also have a son. Before my mate died, she gave birth to a male pup."

Amaya: "You did not answer me earlier. Do you change form?"

Werewolf: "No."

The werewolf sniffed the air and a sweet scent entered his nose.

Werewolf: "You smell so nice."

Amaya: "It is not me that you smell. It is the baby canine of my wolf friend."

Werewolf: "It doesn’t matter and I don’t care. What matters is that you smell nice."

Amaya did not want to talk anymore. However, the werewolf wanted to hear her sweet voice so he pestered Amaya to continue talking.

"Stop whining. I am sleepy. I’d like to go to sleep." Amaya growled.

She was so sleepy that she fell asleep after a minute.

The werewolf growled. He decided to stay and watch over her. He would snatch her away the moment she went out of the rock cage.

Marx wanted to ask Amaya if she managed to communicate with the werewolf but Amaya had already fallen asleep.

The following morning, Amaya woke up to the sound of animals’s shrieks and screams. She went out of the tent and looked above. The werewolf was no longer there. It seems that he could not really go out during the day.

Marx and Valdez have already fed the horse. After eating biscuits and fruits that Amaya picked the day before, they prepared to open the door of their safe house and head off.

Amaya, with a gun in her hand, stood guard behind Marx and Vasques as they opened the huge and heavy door. There were traces of carcasses and blood on the ground but they did not see any animal waiting to ambush them.

The princess heaved a sigh of relief. Vasquez went ahead of her with this horse. Amaya took the two horses with her and exited after Vasquez.

After Marx went out, he tapped something on his cell phone and the hole in the wall disappeared.

Marx and Valdez were so preoccupied with the door that they let their guards down. It was at that moment when something big and brown attacked them.

Amaya sensed its presence. She quickly stepped to the side and shouted. "Marx, Vasquez move aside."

Marx moved to the left side and Vasquez moved to the right, thus creating a space in the middle. Suddenly, there was a loud thud, and a boar that was charging at them at a high speed and could not stop in time hit its head on the wall.

The boar fell unconscious in front of them.

"What a stupid animal!" Vasquez commented drily.

Amaya laughed. "They are animals. What do you expect?"

Amaya went to the stream to wash up. They also let the horses drink. After that, they rode on their horses and the horses were leading them to the top of the mountain.

"Aren’t we in the opposite direction? Shouldn’t we be going down?" Vasques asked.

"Since we are already here, then why don’t we go up and find what secrets could be at the peak of the mountain?" Amaya said fearlessly.

"If you want to go up, then we have to hurry up. We should leave the peak at noon so we could be out of this mountain before it gets dark." Marx tightened his grip on the rope he tied around Apollo and the horse galloped away.

...

At the campsite, Sapiro was very anxious. He was not able to sleep the night before. Though he was not close to Princess Amaya, he was still the eldest among the group and his father would definitely make him accountable if something happened to the princess.

Most of the participating hunters had returned last night. Those who decided to stay in the hunting ground were accounted for. Only Princess Amaya and her two guards did not appear in the tracker.

King Ralden went out of his tent, and the moment Sapiro saw him, he immediately approached him.

"Greetings, Your Majesty. Any news on the location of the princess?"

King Ralden looked at his father-in-law and he frowned. He was flustered and he lacked the calmness of the guard who was always beside Amaya.

"We still could not track the whereabouts of the Princess but we already sent drones early this morning. Our suspicion is that she entered the forbidden Mount Paraiso!"